The two passage gives different views of Blackbeard. The first passage, "Lieutenant Rober Maynard and Blackbeard, the pirate", makes Blackbeard out to be a fierce and threatening man. Yet in the second passage, "A Fury from Hell - or Was He?", shows Blackbeard as a forthright kind of attitude and a leader. Although, in both passages, it inferes that he was a clever man. In the first passage, it states, "Colonial governments grew concerned about their shipping, and acts of piracy... were attributed to blackbeard and his crew" (Lt. Maynard and Blackbeard 1). This shows that Blackbeard was fierce enough to make the colonial governments worry. When the Colonial governments started to worry, they asked Maynard to find and kill Blackbread. In doing
